Advertising or like device.



No, 793,336. PATBNTED JUNE 27, 1905. 0. E. WEST.

ADVERTISING 0E LIKE DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, 1902.

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Patented June 27, 1905.

@NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. \VEST, ()F QUINCY, MASSAUHUSETTS.

ADVERTISING OR LIKE DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,336, dated June 27, 1905. Application filed J ly 10,1902. Serial No. 115.033.

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Be it known that l, (Juaanns F. \Vns'r, residing at Quincy, (\Vollaston station,) in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Advertising or Like Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a device to be attached to the face or front of a tele- 1 hone-transmitter in such a manner that it will be self-supporting and not injure or deface the instrument, which device shall be adapted to bear upon its surface suitable information in the shape of printingor of illustration of any kind of a nature to instruct the telephone user, as the rules and regulationsof the telephone company furnishing-the service or any convenient matter, as a monthly or yearly calendar. the use of which is a frequent necessity while carrying on a conversation, or a space upon the device may be arranged to serve as a tablet upon which notes of the moment may be recorded and erased, or advertisements of any kind which are likely to appeal to the person talking. Often in the course of a telephone connection there are moments when waiting during which an attractive notice or advertisement immediately under observation will receive attention, and the invention is addressed to this purpose.

The invention consists of a device to be arranged upon the front of the transmitter in the annular space around the mouthpiece thereof, made.preferably,of paper-,with a suitably-prepared surface, upon which may be printed any information desired. The device is made as an open resilient ring or collar with cone-shaped sides. the ends of the ring being lapped over each other, so that they may be opened and sprung around the mouthpiece without unscrewing the same.

The matter to be placed upon the face of the collar, usually of some printed character, is put upon the same while it is flat. 1 prefer to make the collar from paper of the cardboard type and of cardboard made by eementing two thin sheets together and calendering the same, as 1 thereby obtain a cardboard of great resiliency. The collars are cut from board, the matter printed upon one I l l side, and then the flat collar is slightly dampened, its ends brought together so that they overlap, then placed between dies and pressed into a cone shape, so that the collar presents the appearance of a truncated cone, the smaller diameter of which is much less than that of the portion of the flaring telephone-mouthpiece it is intended to embrace in order that when it is opened and sprung about the mouthpiece its resiliency will cause it to hug the same tightly. Another advantage of the truncated-cone form of construction is that the printed matter on the face of the collar is much easier read, because of the collar being at an angle with the face ,of the transmitter, all of which I will now proceed to describe, and point out in the appended claims.

Of the accon'ipairving drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of an open collar as it is stamped or cut from a sheet, showing the open ends and printing upon its surface. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. a front view, of an open collar pressed into shape with inclined sides. Fig. -L is a side view, in partial section, of a telephone-transmitter, showing the application thereto of acone-shaped collar; and Fig. 5 is a front view of the transmitter in section on line .1: u of Fig. 4.

As indicated in the several iigu res, A rep: resents a collar in the shape of a truncated cone between the face 1/ of the transmitter T and the curved surface of the mouthpiece 0, its sides sloping toward the said face (Z, upon which its outer edge (1 rests. The mouthpiece 0 has a screw-thread 2, which enters the internal thread in the face (I, the abut1nent4 limiting its entrance. The collar A is cut from cardboard in the shape indicated in Fig. 1 and may have its outer face coveredor partly covered with advertising matter and with a calendar at its central part. The collar is pressed between dies to lix it in the truncatedcone shape with its ends 3 overlapping, so that its orifice is smaller than the diameter of the mouthpiece c and by its substance and construction is made very resilient. \Yhcn the collar thus made is to be attached to the transmitter, the ends 3 3 are around the mouthpiece, to which they will cling closely, so that its base or lower edge a opened and sprung IOO is pressed against the face (Z of the transmitter, while its upper edge bears against the surface of the mouthpiece and retains that position under all the circumstances to which it is subjected. The removal of the collar is easily effected, as will be apparent.

I do not limit myself to the use of paper, but may employ any other suitable material, and may also arrange the device in other ways than those described without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of a telephone-transmitter having an outwardly-flarin g mouthpiece projecting from a surface or front, with a collar for the purpose set forth adapted to 

